While we all know that there's plenty of new music to be found online, trawling around for it can be a chore (particularly when a lot of it isn't terribly good). Which is where Amazing Radio comes in. The station, which broadcasts via amazingradio.co.uk and nationally on DAB, only plays songs from the unsigned artists that have uploaded tracks to its sister site, Amazing Tunes (amazingtunes.com). Any act can create a profile with Amazing Tunes, upload their music and then sell it, with all the profits going to the artist. Those of us who are more adept at listening to music than making it can trawl the site streaming any of 29,000 tracks. But it's easier to rely on Amazing Radio to find the best songs. Having listened to the station for a few hours, the quality is surprisingly high: Gold Motel's spirited indiepop and Daughter's gentle songsmithery particularly stood out. The station is definitely worth a go.

The latest music session website to spring up is Sussex-based 4eyes.tv. The site is already offering 13 sessions, filmed over the last 18 months in various locations, using an intimate, close-up style inspired by documentary film-maker DA Pennebaker. The audio, too, is clearly taken very seriously, with 4eyes' soundman – who produces acts for Warp Records – taking a full mobile studio to shoots. The results are strikingly good. Among the highlights of the sessions available so far are a gorgeous, haunting session from Antlers filmed during last month's Great Escape festival; and Cults belting out their deceptively dark pop in a kitsch Brighton cafe. It would appear the team behind the films are using 4eyes as a tool to sell their video production services to companies. It's certainly a great advert for their skills.

Every few weeks, the wonderful Literary Mixtape feature on US cultural blog flavorwire.compicks a different character from a novel and then decides what they'd have on their hypothetical iPod. The 10-track playlist is then posted as a stream, alongside a well-written explanation for the choices. So, for example, Lolita's Humbert Humbert would be "justifying, self-loathing, and pining away" to love songs by the Smiths and Belle & Sebastian (bit.ly/litmixhh); Hamlet's Ophelia would be playing Elliot Smith, because, after all, "what teenage depressive doesn't love [him]?" (bit.ly/litmixo); and Max from Where the Wild Things Are would be listening to Bad Kids by Black Lips to "justify [his] obnoxiousness" (bit.ly/litmixm). It's a terrific idea, and one that's well worthy of a website in its own right.